The mini class was gluing, building and painting. Ah, this lovely realxing art!
Art classes in Berlin
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The mini class was gluing, building and painting. Ah, this lovely realxing art!
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This project was done in one of my mini classes with 3-6 years old children. We read one of many Eric Carle’s books and had a little discussion about what illustrations are, who is an illustrator and what is his job. Then we looked carefully at Carle’s art and sleeves up and work began!
Children used all sorts of materials and everyday objects to make colourful printed paper. Then they decided what they want to make out of it and before it was dry (who has time for that!) they cut out their shapes. I helped with some drawing. Then they made animals, cars, clouds, airplanes, even books! They are cute!
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And no, we are not responsible for Mount Rushmore although it may look like that.
We are much too young!
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An amazing few hours we had making these beautiful paintings. We quite took the time and that was fine. Children enjoyed the project with ease.
We started on this paitings just after children learned how to mix primary colours so this seemed and turned out as the most logical step forward. We looked at works of Der Blaue Reiter. The name itself is so magnificent and mysterious. There is Berlin somewhere in that blue mystifying fog which reminds me of Nick Cave’s Witness song and it all gets double, triple dramatic. Let’s leave it here hehe.
I love these works and I am as always proud of my 5 and 6 years old students. Children are so very capable!
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Thinking, imagining, associating, planning, transforming it from imagination to paper, from paper to wood and then staying in the frame of fauvist and expressionist colours. The children did fantastic work guided by their desire to give a wrapped gift to their dear dear mothers on Mother’s Day.
Have a happy one dear mamas! You rock!
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After reading a book Masks in the forest children made animal masks. They were working their finger muscles by gluing little pieces of paper on not such small surface. Quite some patience and focus were demanded and they did it really well.
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Every year there is at least once time for Marc Chagall and his magic. Here the masterpieces of 2018.
A week later these children went for an exhibition with their class and by some space/planet/univers-al coincidence they were shown works of you know who and they all started shouting: “Marc Chagall! We know him! It’s Marc Chagall!!” The curator was very impressed. As for me, eh, piece of cake, show them Der Blaue Reiter and some art brut Dubuffet. Try them if you dare.
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The children here only got primary colours and black and white. They were mixing and mixing and mixing and I bet they would still be mixing if I didn’t take paints away.
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Ice creams are a thing. You can never go wrong there. And if you make them giant as these you are in for a win and gold and all ot that.
This is a lovely spring/summer art project. Easy and tasty. Inspired by lovely artbar.
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We’ve made some beautiful ice cream sundaes with my 3-6 year olds after reading a book from Mo Willems, Should I share my ice cream. We’ve made them before with my now older children. You can search for the post below if you are interested in the process. They are an on going inspiration by artbar.